94429 - Mozilla uses relative URLs instead of absolute

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 38488

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Scott Anderson]

User-Agent: Mozilla/4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17 i686)
BuildID:    2001072408

Most of the time, selecting an absolute URL link goes to the same site as the
current page, instead of the actual site. Sometimes this happens with the
personal bookmark toolbar and other bookmarks as well.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Pick a story on LinuxToday that has a link to an outside site.
2. Click the link.
3. Watch the 404 page from linuxtoday.com come up as Mozilla treats it as a
relative link.

Comment 1

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

Scott Anderson: please provide a specific story on linuxtoday where you see
this.  All the stories I've tried work fine with all links within it.

Comment 2

[Scott Anderson]

All of the external links do this, albeit not every time. LinuxToday was just an
example of a site where there are a lot of outside links.

I also get the problem when the browser first starts up and loads my home page
(google.com). If I use a Personal Toolbar button, the link gets treated as
relative, resulting in a 404 from google.com.

As an example, clicking on my Slashdot button just brings up the google.com page
again, and clicking on the ZDNN button (www.zdnet.com/zdnn) attempts to load
www.google.com/zdnn. Generally, clicking on a button twice will bring up the
real site as long as there is something behind the site name; ie.
www.zdnet.com/zdnn will work the second time, but www.slashdot.com will only
bring up the google.com page every time.

Mozilla has basically become unusable for me because of this bug.

Comment 3

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Scott, are you using a proxy server like Junkbuster?

Comment 4

[Scott Anderson]

Yes, Junkbuster.

Comment 5

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 38488 ***

Comment 6

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

VERIFIED.